Wow, I haven't hit the ol blog in a couple of weeks, my bad! I have been trying to get in the habit of blogging more this year - hopefully whenever I get my craft blog going (Dee Bee Sea is defunct until baby having is done with) and someday that big, shiny etsy shop hoppin, I will be awesome about updates and uploading stuff and whatnot. YEAH!
Let's see, what's been going on?
Well, for the past week, the weather here in Acme, WA has been fucking G L O R I O U S. I mean, clear, high, cold blue skies, frost tipped greenery, clean breezes down from the mountains, and best of all, no rain OR snow! MAN I am so done with snow. For serious and true. But the weather has def. made me antsy for spring, I keep looking at Ma's lawn and looking for the little jonquils and crocuses and snowdrops I know should be popping up in a couple of months...hurry UP, flowers. And then there are the plum blossoms and cherry blossoms and (best of all) apple blossoms around here, which are all lovely and smell like sugar-heaven. So I have basically fooled myself into thinking spring is just around the corner. Which means I thing that my house is a dump and that everything needs to be cleaned, polished, painted, and aired out. DID YOU KNOW that if you air linens out on a January day in the the Cascade foothills, no matter how sunny it is, they will come in crackly with a 1/4" of frost? It is TRUUUUE. but they smell lovely.
In related sprucing news, I have been (slowly) painting a large, acrylic mural on the baby's room wall in our loft area. There is a purple sea that will be populated with chubby mermaids, a big silver tree on top of a periwinkle hill, set against a pink, swirly sky. I've never painted on quite that large of a scale before, so it's been...rough...to keep motivated. Especially after my armpits (wtf!) get sore and I get paint up my nose for the millionth time. But I have been keeping motivated by doing three other baby-realted projects (I have to do a lot at once to keep focused, what is wrong with my brain). I am also knitting a wee sweater to go with the pointy elf hat I made, finishing up a baby quilt started last January, and making baby wipes out of old flannel sheets and random pieces in my stash. So it's been good, my fingers and wrists are holding up and not being little bitches about all of the work I force them to do and things are turning out pretty good-looking. Usually my fingers are all "wah, my little girly muscles hurt" and my wrists are all "ohhh I am too limp to knit for hours" but after a year of conditioning them, they are BURLY and I can craft and sew and paint all the live-long-day. At this rate, when I am an old lady, I will look like a body builder from the elbows down. RADNESS!
Related to crafting, I hate Etsy shops. I wanted to like them, but MAN. The all seem to have elected to sell a piss-poor product with unfinished fabric edges and hanging thread ends and and and UGH it drives me nuts. And they always charge far too much for said mediocrity, you know? It's galling, as someone who has been sewing for over ten years, to see such shabby work being proferred for sale to the masses as a quality product worth twenty times the cost of materials and labour. It is such bullshit. I've been at it for a long time, and half the time, I would rather give things away as they are not up to MY standards. Maybe that's why I'm still not making money at it, but I couldn't in good conscience sell something I felt to be a piece of shit, what with it coming from my brain and hands and all. So that was an irritating experience. One of those times I had to keep my mouth shut and smile politely, I know people who sell there but won't look. I hate etsy crafts. there. I said it.
Ummm.
Other than that, I watched the Obama inauguration and decided to attend Unitarian Universalist services (I'm a taoist liker of Jesus the dude, not the bible though, and many other ideas of peace and love and service). Nothing too exciting, right ! HA!
